#SAYNOTOXENOPHOBIA

#saynotoxenophobia is a campaign that wants to stop discrimination against foreigners/ foreign people, my blog is about to address on how social media played a part in the hash tag.

The social media had negative and positive reaction towards this movement, but this movement was created because the attacks and discrimination were just inhuman, even the pictures that were circulating in social networks and video of torturing and burning people were inhuman.

 Social media gave people a platform to actually make people realize just how bad the situation was, the responses were positive in some instance as everything circulated even celebrities like Terry Pheto and even President jacob zuma got to intervene and also by posting status on social media interventions of celebrities

#saynotoxenophobia is also to serve as condemnations of the attacks being perpetrated in the country, South Africans have been at the helm of championing the conjoined hash tags, some on social media would be creative and start their own hast tags like #notinmynamewouldisupportxenophobia this made people to start realizing how serious it was, not only to those within our country who got see but also people abroad who got to see everything on social media.

Challenges that these foreigners that are being discriminated again is that some of the would actually not have an identity document to stay permanently which would be that they get deported back to their country, and some of the refugee camps as well do not accommodate them for a very long time and we might also face the fact that these foreigners would want to retaliate commission that comes with retaliation

Advantage is that some of these foreigners came in our country to study and that limits the rate or decreases the numbers of people unemployed which contributes to our countries economy, and some of these foreigners actually are qualified to work in top sectors. improving our economy, and also now that our ministers and the president of parliament have issued out statement it means that the attacks will come to a stand still.

Disadvantage is that in this whole process we have investors who are from different parts of the world, or people willing to do business with us, but because of discrimination they start pulling off those deals that might even make profit for us.investors turned away. , it also reflects bad on us as a country because south Africa has developed a friendship/relationship with these foreign countries.

As a public relations my recommendation would be that if our country does not want foreigners living in our country, that should be negotiated with the government, and not result in violence and killings of people because we all want to make an honest living at the end of the day, so if people feel that they are here to take their jobs then it should be arranged that they do not stay here for a permanent basis.